So what's on these pages?

1. Student Meeting - Your Itinerary: in small groups, students research destinations on their itinerary.
2. Self Directed Exploration and Presentation - Your Itinerary: in small groups, students prepare a presentation about the research they did about a destination on the trip itinerary for their larger group of peers.
3. Student Meeting - Family Stay Expectations: individually and in a group students explore realistic and idealistic expectations for the family stay.
4. Student Meeting - Family Stay Comfortable, Uncomfortable or Neutral: individually and in a group students respond to what makes the comfortable, uncomfortable or neutral about their upcoming family stay.
5. Student Meeting - Family Stay What if...?: in pairs or small groups students problem solve scenarios and practice what they might say in the target language to address issues with their host families.
6. Student Meeting - Family Stay Meeting the Family: in small and large groups, students research and discuss customs for greeting, meeting and living with a host family.
7. Self Directed Exploration and Presentation - In the News : individually students explore current issues in journal sources from their destination countries and the U.S. They will report on their issue of choice to their peers.
8. Self Directed Exploration and Presentation - What's on the Menu?: individually students research the food they will eat in country and do a presentation about it to their peers.
9. Self Directed Exploration - The Lay of the Land and National Symbols: individually students explore facts and details about their destination.
10. Self Directed Exploration - What's Cooking?: individually, students explore the food they will encounter on their program, and will prepare a dish for their family!
11. Self Directed Exploration - Money Matters!: individually students will research the currency and monetary practices in their destination. They can download a budget sheet to work on with their parents too!
12. Self Directed Exploration - Communicate Before You Go: Best Family Stay Letter, email, and social media. Students navigate the different avenues of communication and the messages they want to send.
13. Self Directed Exploration - What to Bring the Host Family: families plan what students will bring to their host family.
14. Self Directed Exploration Family Stay Vocabulary:students translate vocabulary and phrases associated with the family stay into the target language.
15. Reflection - Why a Family Stay?: students explore their goals for the family stay.
16. Reflection - My Questions, Their Questions: students reflect on the questions they have about their host family, the questions their host family may have about them and prepare questions in the target language that they want to ask their host family when they get there.
17. Reflection - What are my expectations for the family stay?: students reflect on "musts" for their host families.
18. Reflection - During the family stay, I promise...": students make personal promises as they prepare for the family stay.
19. Reflection - Typical Host Families: students explore stereotypes about families